The keynote session for POWER-GEN International 2013 may be the best keynote session in POWER-GEN’s 25-year history.

A survey conducted by the KPMG Global Energy Institute shows that a majority of energy executives believe the U.S. can reach energy independence by 2030.

The Eel River Power Plant, a biomass-fired cogeneration plant in Scotia, Calif., is back online after being closed for more than five months.

The Northeast Power Coordinating Council Inc. stated there will be an adequate supply of electricity this summer in New England, eastern Canada and the city and state of New York in its annual summer reliability assessment.

GE and Green Waste Energy signed a frame agreement for GE to supply an undetermined amount of Jenbacher gas engines to power a series of Advanced Recycling and Energy Conversion plants.

The PJM Interconnection could save its customers $6.9 billion if it more than doubled the amount of wind energy it currently plans to build.

Utility leaders say they expect state or federal officials to take action on carbon regulations in the next eight years, and that grid reliability is still a major concern.

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), grid operator for most of the state, is preparing for a hot summer as it continues to evaluate future resource adequacy.

Xcel Energy has filled the capacity of its Solar*Rewards program, which provides rebates to customers installing small-sized solar installations on their homes or business, and plans to request an increase in the program capacity for 2013.

Natural gas is becoming more important in the power generation industry each year.

The 30 Advanced Energy (AE) 500 kW 1kV DC Utility PV Inverters at PG&E's 15MW Westside Solar Station successfully passed multiple low voltage sag events.

Wind energy's contributions of clean power in North America in 2012 grew significantly.

American Electric Power (AEP) won approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to separate its Ohio generating assets from its Ohio distribution and transmission operations and transfer these assets to a competitive generation company and regulated affiliates.

Ten states, the District of Columbia and New York City have sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency threatening to sue over the delay in finalizing the New Source Performance Standard.

Eos Energy Storage and Con Edison are teaming up to install and test Eos’ energy storage technology at ConEd’s facilities.

Invenergy purchased three GE 2.5-120 wind turbines as part of an 86-turbine deal with GE for a wind farm in Texas

Rentech Nitrogen Partners L.P. selected Abengoa to construct a cogeneration plant in the state of Texas.

SunEdison installed a solar power array at the global headquarters of office supply company Staples in Framingham, Mass.

Acclaim Energy Advisors a provider of energy management solutions formed a 6-year strategic agreement to provide DLO365 to government agencies and facilities in Texas.

Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have designed a low-cost, long-life "flow" battery that could enable solar and wind energy to become major suppliers to the electrical grid.

Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) announced it has brought the 300 MW Nuevo Pemex cogeneration plant online in the southeastern state of Tabasco, Mexico.

FuelCell Energy Inc. sold a 1.4 MW fuel cell power plant for installation at a hospital in Hartford, Conn.

Quantum Utility Generation LLC completed the acquisition of three combined-cycle natural gas-fired and cogeneration power plants in Florida from affiliates of Atlantic Power Corp.

ITC Holdings Corp. voted to approve the proposed merger of Entergy’s transmission business into ITC.

Atlantic Power Corp. closed the sale of the company’s interests in three Florida natural gas-fired power plants for $140 million.

GE will install three Jenbacher natural gas engines to power a 12 MW quadgeneration power plant in Brazil.

Ontario-based Hydrogenics Corp. was awarded a 1 MW hydrogen energy storage system to be used in the city of Hamburg, Germany.

NRG Energy Inc. signed an agreement with a consortium of affiliates of Atlantic Power Corp., John Hancock Life Insurance Co. (U.S.) and Rockland Capital LLC to acquire the Gregory cogeneration power plant in Corpus Christi, Texas for $244 million.

Nationwide Boiler Inc. completed the retrofit of two natural gas-fired boilers with a common ammonia-free CataStak selective catalytic reduction system at the NRG Energy Center in California.

MidAmerican Energy and ITC Holdings have plans to build more than 400 miles of transmission lines in Iowa and Minnesota by 2017 to accommodate the state’s growing wind power generation.

Boiler tube failures remain a leading cause of lost availability in power boilers.

As power companies look to deal with stronger federal regulations and a focus on renewable energy, many talk about maintaining fuel diversity – using a variety of generation methods to not only meet overall emissions requirements, but also stabilize prices for customers by not relying too heavily on one type of fuel throughout a company's fleet.

Investments by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) are helping to produce geothermal power at increasingly lower temperatures.

Things change fast in air dispersion modeling. Immediate effects occur from tightened standards, shorter averaging times and new pollutants.

Babcock & Wilcox said that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, signed a contract with FutureGen Industrial Alliance to begin the next phase of the 167 MW FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture and storage project in Meredosia, Ill.

EnerNOC Inc. launched the DemandSMART Predictor for New England, which leverages a predictive analytics model to forecast the high demand hours when customers’ capacity and transmission charges are set for the following year.

Juhl Wind Inc. completed a name change to Juhl Energy Inc. to reflect the steps the company has taken to diversify its portfolio.

The U.S. Energy Department (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which is focused on growing manufacturing of clean energy products and improving manufacturing energy productivity.

The California Independent System Operator Corporation Board of Governors has approved its 2012-2013 Transmission Plan, which included approval for five new power line projects intended to meet the state’s environmental and energy goals.

Capstone Turbine Corp. received orders totaling 5 MW from DTC Solutions Inmobiliarias SA de CV, one of the company’s distributors in Mexico.

A report from Pike Research, a part of Navigant’s Energy Practice, has predicted the market for long-duration or bulk energy, known as energy storage on the grid, will increase rapidly over the next decade, with nearly 56 GW of ESG being installed from 2012 to 2022.

GE said it is unveiling its Critical Power business in Texas that helps to supply reliable power to critical power businesses, such as hospitals, data centers and financial institutions.

EnerNOC Inc. said it has extended a contract to deliver energy efficiency solutions to commercial and industrial (C&I) energy users.

GE announced that its CyberSecurity SEM Security Event Manager is available.

The price of electricity in the US has increased in the last ten years, as utilities have passed the cost of system upgrades on to consumers, but those investments haven’t made the grid more reliable.

Lucid Energy, a provider of renewable energy systems and developer of the LucidPipe Power system for in-conduit hydropower, announced that it was the first U.S.-based company to receive funding from OurCrowd, an Israel-based hybrid venture capital and crowdfunding platform.

The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) projects year-over-year total transmission investment from EEI members to continue rising until 2013, reaching a peak of around $15.1 billion.

Consumers Energy picked Schneider Electric as its primary provider of weather information in Michigan.

More utilities are beginning to recognize the benefits of investing in residential solar financing.